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The Clean Energy Regulator has developed new frameworks to help current and potential solar PV participants to determine their eligibility to participate in the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme or the Large-Scale Renewable Energy Target.

Australia’s renewable energy sector is within striking distance of matching national household power consumption, cranking out enough electricity to run 70% of homes last financial year, new figures show.

Matt Howell, who is the CEO of Australia’s largest electricity consumer – the Tomago Aluminium Smelter – thinks that Australia needs a new coal power plant. On Monday night he told ABC Radio’s PM program that because NSW nearly ran out of power one day last summer - which required his plant to curtail its use of electricity to avoid paying extremely high electricity spot market prices - there was a need to build new fossil-fuel power plants.